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16_76 Yellowstone Ca_on to be not quite perpendicular. The water of the river comes along in a broad pulsating current, confident and gay, contracts to 65 ft. and plunges over the precipace [stet] in a green wave. The water is also green, a lighter green, in the pool at the bottom but covered with white foam. The spray which now rises is of a smoke (white-smoke) color. The canon walls near the falls run with multitudinous miniature streamlets caused by the condensation of the condensing spray. After |
16_77 July 27, 1906 this I went down the river to Lookoout Point where one has from the top of the canon a fine view facing the falls. This last the best of all. Here the beauty of the fall impresses one most. At the platform station at the edge of the falls, two girls not so young came down the trail, took a glance at the falls, seated themselves with their backs to the water, produced a box of candy, which they occupied themselves with for some time, finally go up and walked up the trail without a single backward look. All the way down this side of the ca_on are "grand views" and |
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